Lord Love a Duck

Released Feb 21, 1966

1 hr. 35 min.

Comedy

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70%

10 Reviews

Tomatometer

72%

1,000+ Ratings

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An unusually gifted high school senior, Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowall), decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld), achieve her goal of popularity. With Alan's guidance, Barbara climbs the social ladder, finds a husband and eventually gets a shot at a glamorous movie career. But when Barbara's husband begins to get in the way of her ambitions, Alan will stop at nothing to make sure she reaches the top.

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Dated, unwatchable '60's drek, think Blobbo.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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A charming coming-of-age tale centering on a too-smart-for-his-own-good ne'er do well and the gal he fancies as his friend. A very smart script edited well.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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kevin w

Hokey smokes! Where did this tantalizing hidden gem of a dark comedy come from!?! I never even heard of it, but zowie, it's a keeper right up there with The Graduate and You're A Big Boy Now insofar as subversive, in-your-face, us-against-the-establishment-with-a-smirk, 60's style movies go. Think ... if Altman's M*A*S*H and Hitchcock's Psycho had a kid. Its sorta like that. Loved it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Released the year after the equally wonderfully odd and quirky The Loved One, but aimed at a much younger audience. The Mid 60's and early 70's were a golden era for black comedy/satire. From Dr Strangelove to Horold and Maude and much in between.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Subtitle: An Act of Pure Agression

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Almost surreal, and one really tripped out movie made before the hippie generation took over and made crass humor, this is a story about a boy geinus who hooks up with a hot chick pre graduation from high school and he makes it his life's work to help her out to get anything her heart desires. Full of innuendo and more running amuck than a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the story leads us down on a wacky path then switchs gears and comes to holt only to spin around for one big loop to start the crazy movie all over again. Amazing cast of Tuesday Weld and Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon as there funniest and most absurb. Very black and dark comedy, terrific companion piece to the English film Morgan! Not for all tastes but for those with wits and brains this is a gem!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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George Axelrod

Director

Roddy McDowall

Alan 'Mollymauk' Musgrave

Tuesday Weld

Barbara Ann Greene

Lola Albright

Marie Greene

George Axelrod

Writer

Al Hine

Writer

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Tom Milne

Sight & Sound

Lord Love a Duck looks and sounds exactly as one would expect: brilliantly, inconsequentially, anarchically funny, and full of kooky characters.

Mar 19, 2020

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Pauline Kael

McCall's

After we’ve sat, laughing occasionally but mainly being rather appalled by this exhibition of lack of control, we are preached at from the screen for our tiny minds and our family spray deodorants.

Sep 20, 2023

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Frank J. Avella

Edge Media Network

Lord Love a Duck is a wildly subversive, scathing satire with an often-twisted, swirling sexual energy.

Rated: A-

Sep 24, 2020

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Chuck O'Leary

FulvueDrive-in.com

Rated: 2/5

May 7, 2007

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Kooky satire.

Rated: A-

Feb 16, 2007

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 17, 2005

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Synopsis

An unusually gifted high school senior, Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowall), decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld), achieve her goal of popularity. With Alan's guidance, Barbara climbs the social ladder, finds a husband and eventually gets a shot at a glamorous movie career. But when Barbara's husband begins to get in the way of her ambitions, Alan will stop at nothing to make sure she reaches the top.

Director: George Axelrod
Screenwriter: George Axelrod, Al Hine, Larry H. Johnson
Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: Charleston Productions
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 21, 1966, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 13, 2017
Sound Mix: Mono